On Aug 10, 11:43*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"JimmyMac" wrote in message

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On Aug 2, 2:16 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
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It is too much to ask which is why you are never going to get it. Usenet
without moderators is strictly for clowns.
Trolls who are clown you mean. *Lack of a moderator merely provides

opportunity that the troll (clown) exploits. * The American
Psychiatric Association considers the internet troll to be a form of
mental illness ... a personality disorder. *Is there anything good
about that?

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. The only one who is acting out of the
mainstream is yourself. Tom Sherman is the expert on Usenet, not you. You
proved your lack of perspicacity via the Ed Gin episode on ARBR some years
back.

Once again you deleted a large section of my post in responding
without so much as a SNIP Why? because netiquette does not apply to
trolls. That's why Reinserted here...

Trolls are often socially disenfranchised, devoid of interpersonal
skills. Trolls generally have no substantive connection to the cyber-
community that they troll and view the internet as a convenient,
delocalized communication conduit for their bizarre anti-social
behavior. The internet is their cyber-playpen. Trolls post
attention-
seeking, provocative messages hoping to bait and entice other users
into angry and/or fruitless responses. A troll is an abusive user who
delights in upsetting others and creating discord in an online
community ... someone who purposefully posts messages deliberately
crafted to annoy antagonize, and infuriate ... messages that are off-
topic, inflammatory, or even controversial, rude, offensive, or
divisive with every intent to disrupt normal discussion or provoke a
desired emotional response.

Trolls are utterly immune to criticism and logical arguments. Trolls
cannot be negotiated with or reasoned with. One cannot cause a troll
to feel shame, compassion or remorse. When one attempts to reason
with a troll, the troll wins. When one insults a troll, the troll
wins. Trolls are generally sociopathic and, do not feel encumbered or
constrained by rules of etiquette, common courtesy or social
boundaries. Trolls consider themselves above social constraints and
responsibilities. Trolls view the Internet as a mirror into which
they can gaze in narcissistic rapture. Disrupting a stable newsgroup
gives the troll an illusion of power. Trolls often style themselves
as gadflies, challenging and subverting the dominant discourse and
assumptions of the forum they are trolling. Trolls crave attention,
and it matters not whether it is positive or negative. For trolls,
any response is "recognition" since it serves as a means to garner a
twisted sense of self-importance, itself a satisfying emotional reward
for the troll. Trolls are unable to distinguish between irritation
and admiration and their ego grows in proportion to the number of
accumulated response, regardless of form or content. Trolls dispute
this, claiming that it's just fun, a game, or a joke, but this merely
confirms diagnosis. Trolls live lonely, cowardly lives behind the
anonymity of a keyboard, desperately engaged a mind-numbing, time-
wasting, trivial hobby that is their source of amusement.


When in Rome do as the Romans? You mean when on Usenet emulate a
troll/clown. No thanks. Perspicacity is not a trait that a
troglodyte trolls possess. You myopic view of Usenet is one that you
will always mistakenly subscribe to.

You are stuck in a time warp. Usenet may have been worth something when it
was new, but it is now old and it is worthless. I suspect Facebook and the
other social websites are more your speed.

Someone who has difficult writing a post without mentioning Ed Gin
accuses me of being stuck in a time warp. Now that is a hoot. Social
network is rife with privacy and security problems. Social networking
appeals to lonely people indulging their egos. Social networkers
bombard one other with blow-by-blow accounts of the daily minutiae
with a never- ending stream of status updates. The social networker
is compelled to share their every movement and thought no matter how
mundane seemingly to validate their very existence. It is as though
in the absence of an audience of followers, the social networker's
life would be without meaning. Actually this sounds right up you
alley. I'll pass.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota